SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

This program will calculate the k rank-approximate-nearest-neighbors of a set of points. You may specify a separate set of reference points and query points, or just a reference set which will be used as both the reference and query set. You must specify the rank approximation (in %) (and optionally the success probability).

For example, the following will return 5 neighbors from the top 0.1% of the data (with probability 0.95) for each point in ’input.csv’ and store the distances in ’distances.csv’ and the neighbors in the file ’neighbors.csv’:

Note that tau must be set such that the number of points in the corresponding percentile of the data is greater than k. Thus, if we choose tau = 0.1 with a dataset of 1000 points and k = 5, then we are attempting to choose 5 nearest neighbors out of the closest 1 point -- this is invalid and the program will terminate with an error message.

The output files are organized such that row i and column j in the neighbors output file corresponds to the index of the point in the reference set which is the i’th nearest neighbor from the point in the query set with index j. Row i and column j in the distances output file corresponds to the distance between those two points.

If true, sampling will be done without using a tree. --neighbors_file (-n) [string] File to output neighbors into. Default value ’’. --output_model_file (-M) [string] If specified, the kNN model will be saved to the given file. Default value ’’.

If true, single-tree search is used (as opposed to dual-tree search. --single_sample_limit (-S) [int] The limit on the maximum number of samples (and hence the largest node you can approximate). Default value 20.

--tau (-t) [double]

The allowed rank-error in terms of the percentile of the data. Default value 5.

Display informational messages and the full list of parameters and timers at the end of execution.

--version (-V)

Display the version of mlpack.

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